Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is a very reasonable question. ...and truth be told, I'm not exactly sure what I mean. But I do think that it's plai

Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is a very reasonable question. ...and truth be told, I'm not exactly sure what I mean. But I do think that it's plain to notice that the internet tends to facilitate a style of sharing that is inconsistent with the "copyright" model of intellectual property (in addition to precluding a functioning patent system, as you point out). It seems to me that we need to make peace with the innate tendencies of information, including the tendency of data to be copied and shared. The myth of Prometheus teaches us that this is a message deep in the species, and yet somehow governments have gotten the idea that they have the power to reverse it. If the internet and governments clash head-to-head, of course the internet will win. The forward march of time does not yield, and especially not for something so fragile and childish as a claim to own an idea. So I don't exactly know which notions of IP will become outdated and when, but I can visualize easily enough that some of them will at some future point.